From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 14 19:00:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6494D16A4DF for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:00:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F6D43D55 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:00:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m51so766812pye for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:00:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=oAfydw7dysrgKJGlu5s8CB8c2LhinRa9G6Df3GaItcW0VsuJK7CuwdNCligqhdjxoodNIKbzrPWLD9wKWTxKtH8QV6Z+HwFiOEvIk+B6rPYoVzBRLHrgUyxiyrS5pNAxBbtvDeNy+8T/4XhCyu08UQ2Sd06wtpxCL1hWpkVkfbU= Received: by 10.35.57.5 with SMTP id j5mr2356264pyk; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:00:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.87.5 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:00:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:00:53 +0000 From: "michael johnson" Sender: buhnux@gmail.com To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <20060714184154.78925.qmail@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060714184154.78925.qmail@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e380aa638ecff77d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Jeremy Messenger , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:00:58 -0000 On 7/14/06, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > > > --- Jeremy Messenger ha scritto: > > > > > > Nobody should install both xorg and xfree86 at the same time. It's > pretty > > pointless and it would cause more messy when you try to build other > ports > > that depend on either of it. Move everything in LOCALBASE, nothing more > > and nothing less, is much cleaner. > > > > Consider the following scenario: > > Happy owner of an (lets say) ATI card wants to use FreeBSD but he REALLY > needs > OpenGL. He decides to give XFree86 a try since he has heard on XOrg the > accelerated OpenGL doesn't work very well yet. > > Happy owner installs some non-X packages and then installs XFree86. He > then > goes throught the work of setting up his build for building everything > with > XFree86. When a "working" XOrg release comes he'll have to massively > deinstall > packages including XFree86 (and his configuration files) just to check if > XOrg > now works. > > Having it's own prefix, he still has to remove packages, but at least now > he > knows most of the conflicting packages will be in /usr/X11, and if there > is > "garbage" left he can still do rm -rf /usr/X11 without fear of removing > non-X > stuff. > > If POLA is important here, I guess leaving X11BASE as it is now > (/usr/X11R6) > for XFree86 is the way to go. I'm not saying we should be able to run > different > Xservers in the same box (although that is not a bad idea altogether), but > that > we could, and should, alleviate the issues of people wanting to run > XFree86, > especially since it comes at no cost. for the few people this would apply to they could always add something to make.conf to install Xfree86 in /usr/X11R6 or xorg or what ever and have both installed. Pedro > > Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! > http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >